Alex MacHail hadn’t planned on becoming a father—until he met the orphaned Alejandro. He hadn’t planned on falling in love—until he met Jo Barnett. He’s been approved as a single parent, and now just has to deal with the remaining red tape that keeps Alejandro from coming to live with him. In the meantime, he convinces the newly evicted Jo Barnett to move into his house as a tenant with the excuse that he has to travel a lot. He hopes that given time together, he’ll find a way into her heart. He also hopes that when that happens, she’ll embrace Alejandro, too.
When Jo Barnett is forced out of her rent control apartment, she hadn’t counted on having a chance to live in a beach front house. Newly broken-up with her loser boyfriend, she also hadn’t counted on falling for her sexy landlord, but that was her little secret. Jo had no idea that Alex’s little secret was about to arrive—and transform their platonic twosome into a cozy threesome!
Judith Janeway is the award-winning author of four novels. Her lifelong love of mystery and suspense infuses her recent works, The Magician’s Daughter and the psychological thriller, Odds of Dying.
The Street Artist, a piece of flash fiction, won the Orlando Prize and was published in the Los Angeles Review. Judith also has a short story, Get A Life, in the forthcoming Sisters in Crime anthology, Fault Lines.
Judith holds a master’s degree in Comparative Literature and a doctorate in Health Psychology. While raising her family and continuing to write and publish fiction, she pursued a career as a social science researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, studying people coping with life-threatening illnesses and their caregivers.
She now follows her first passion, writing, full time. She is currently completing the second psychological suspense in in a two book series. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and when she’s not writing, she hangs out with family and friends. She likes to walk along the nearby protected wetlands, and for seven months of the year baseball holds her in thrall.